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I love baking. If you also bake, you know that some recipes begin with directions to beat together softened butter and sugar, as the base for a cake or cookies. Other recipes indicate that some ingredients need to be gently folded into another – as in combining su…

Posted on November 19, 2022

In the 11th century, a Japanese woman known as Murasaki Shikibu wrote “The Tale of Genji,” a 54-chapter story of courtly seduction believed to be the world’s first novel.

Over 1,000 years later, people the world over are still engross…